[Visit to Iceland by Ida Pfeiffer]@TWC D-Link bookVisit to Iceland CHAPTER X 5/42
The corn-market of Stockholm is insignificant. The principal buildings besides those already enumerated are, the bank, the mint, the guard-house, the palace of the crown-prince, the theatre, &c.
The latter is interesting, partly because Gustavus III.
was shot in it.
He fell on the stage, while a grand masquerade was taking place, for which the theatre had been changed into a ball-room.
The king was shot by a mask, and died in a few hours. There is not a representation in the theatre every night; and on the one evening of performance during my visit a festival was to be celebrated in the hall of antiquities.
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